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PERUVIAN
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Built in 1808, Parson's Yard, Warsash (Cruizer class).
Broken up in 1830. |
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- 1808 F. DOUGLAS.
05/1808. - 1811 F. DICKINSON, West Indies.
- 1812 A. F. WESTROPP, West Indies.
He captured the American privateer schooner YANKEE off Sombrero on the 24 October 1812.
With 7 guns and 44 men she was 38 days out of Salem but had made no captures. - 1813 George KIPPEN, American station.
While he was beating up to his station from St. Thomas's and was seventy-nine miles E. by N. of Sombrero, he fell in with an American privateer ship JOHN and chased her fifteen hours.
During the last two hours the privateer kept up a continuous fire from her stern guns but after PERUVIAN got within pistol shot, an exchange of fire from the bow guns and shots from the marines she surrendered.
The American mounted 16 guns and carried 100 men. - At the beginning of September 1814 PERUVIAN took part in an expedition up the Penobscot river in Maine.
(see SYLPH for details) On 8 April 1815 she left Bermuda for home with ALBION, ASIA and HAVOC. - 1816 James WHITE, to St. Helena and the Cape.
- 1817-30 Plymouth.
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